On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:28:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I have a new policy: Once Ubuntu applies a patch to software I wrote, > without allowing me to sign off on it[1],
This appears to have been the result of a grave misunderstanding on my part. From the bug log, I mistakenly believed that the only outstanding question between this patch and the git repository was whether this should be turned on in compat level 8 or 9. As it's now clear to me that this is not the case, I've reverted the change in question from Ubuntu. Regardless of whether you consider this patch a non-starter now because of my previous Ubuntu upload, this is the right thing for us to do so long as this patch is not agreed for upstream inclusion. It was never my intention to introduce Ubuntu-specific debhelper behavior or preempt your authority to decide whether this patch should be accepted, and I'm very sorry that this is how it came across. > By doing this, over and over again, Ubuntu is implicitly saying that they > do not value my work, my expertese, or the time I would need to spend to > deal with fallout of their changes, and so I simply choose to ignore them > in return. I can't speak for any other Ubuntu uploaders, but as the uploader of this particular change I can assure you without hesitation that this is not how I feel, and I wouldn't have pushed this patch had I understood there was any risk that it might result in fallout to you. I've learned my lesson and in the future will avoid grabbing debhelper patches before they've been committed to git. Apparently when I try to read between the lines on bug reports, that doesn't work so well. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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